COLUMBUS - LeBron James will be hectic on his era off this weekend. James is expected to be on employee today when his alma mater, Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary, plays in the Division II boys basketball allege championship engagement at Value City Arena.
Michael Hammonds scored 25 points and Daylen Harrison added 23 to incline the Fighting Irish (22-4) to a 75-61 supremacy over Columbus DeSales in one semifinal Friday. No. 3-ranked SVSM advances to carry out Dayton Thurgood Marshall, a 62-53 title-holder in overtime against Circleville Logan Elm, in the championship game.
Nick Kellogg, a second-team All-Ohioan, led eighth-ranked DeSales (22-4) with 25 points. Ike Ariguzo added 13 before fouling out. THURGOOD MARSHALL 62, LOGAN ELM 53: Shawn Robinson feigned overtime with a 3-point spot and Juwan Staten hit all 12 loose throws including six in overtime to direction Dayton Thurgood Marshall in a Division II stage semifinal. Robinson’s 3-pointer from the rectify of the first of the skeleton key came with 9 seconds and kept Marshall (22-4) alive. Staten totaled 24 points and Robinson had 15.
DeAngelo Gates added 10 points and 15 rebounds for Marshall, once known as Colonel White, a callow institute built on the milieu of the time-worn Roth adherents grounds. Logan Elm (24-2) didn’t have a arable ideal in the fourth favour as a 10-point cause melted away. NORTHLAND 73, WARREN HARDING 59: J.D. Weatherspoon scored 25 points and Mr. Basketball Jared Sullinger added 22 as Columbus Northland backed up its No. 1 ranking in a Division I delineate semifinal at Ohio State’s Value City Arena.
Weatherspoon, a 6-foot-6 minor who committed to Xavier, hit 11 of 12 shots from the battleground and also had eight rebounds, a blocked finger and a steal. Sullinger, a 6-9 lesser who verbally committed to Ohio State, hit 9 of 12 shots and had 14 rebounds, three assists, two blocks and a steal. First-team All-Ohioan Desmar Jackson, headed for Wyoming, led Harding (23-3) with 29 points. PRINCETON 55, ST. JOHN’S 41: Marquis Horne scored 18 and Jordan Sibert made numerous big plays in a tide-turning 13-0 scuttle to advantage Cincinnati Princeton done with Toledo St. John’s in a Division I testify semifinal.
The winning sets up a mirage matchup in Saturday’s championship strategy between the second-ranked Vikings (25-1) and No. 1 Columbus Northland. Sibert, a 6-foot-4 secondary who verbally committed to Ohio State, finished with 15 points. First-team All-Ohioan Orlando Williams, headed for Miami (Ohio), added 10 points.